​Supplicating for disbelievers

Question:

Is it possible to supplicate or to ask Allah for non Muslim people like for example our family members? Could you bring a daleel for it? May Allah reward you with goodness.

Zaynab El-Kateb:

Yes, we supplicate for non Muslim people as long as they are still alive. We supplicate that Allah guides them to the truth, to Islam, but if they died kuffar, then we are not allowed to supplicate for them.

From the Sunnah, we have the hadith that the Prophet, peace be upon him, supplicated to Allah to guide the mother of Abu Hurayrah while she was a disbeliever, and Allah responded to the supplication and she embraced Islam same day: